“Two lifetimes -- yours and mine.”
Peter Greenaway (1942) British film director
Georgina and Michael
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover
“There are only two mantras… yum and yuk. Mine is yum.”
Phase II, Ch. 21.
Source: Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)
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